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UN
(2018)

National Dance Company Wales: Alternative Routes 2018

CHOREOGRAPHER: KAT COLLINGS
DANCER: JULIA REIDER
SET ANIMATION: NIKITA GOILE & CYRIL DURAND GASSELIN
COMPOSER: SYLVIA VILLA
SOUND DESIGN: BENJAMIN SMITH
PERFORMANCE: 07/06/18- 09/06/18
THEATRE: DANCE HOUSE, WALES MILLENIUM CENTRE

 

About The Project:

Alternative Routes is an event designed to showcase the works of up and coming choreographers from the National Dance Company Wales, in collaboration with designers and composers from the RWCMD.

Sylvia worked with choreographer Kat Collings to create a composition to enhance Kat’s explorations of the movements and motions of one person in ‘Un.’

“Fascinated  by all the possibilities of one person.

Emotions, memories, feelings
What we choose and what just happens to us
The pleasure we find,
The like behind things of dislike
Evolution, development and change
All that happens to us naturally
Structure,
One plays.”

The composition utilised drum sticks to create a metronome-style beat, drum rhythms layered to give a contrast between a groove and irregularity, low bass sounds with synth midi notes hovering above, all separated with moments of silence.